Decorating your games

Nostalgia doesn’t have to stop at playing your games. Why not make your collection into a shrine to your misspent youth?

Making purty cover-art icons

Boxer can turn game cover scans (or any image you like) into high-resolution Finder icons for your games.

If you drop an opaque image (like a JPEG), then Boxer will apply a shiny box effect to the icon.
If you drop an image with transparency data (like a 32-bit PNG), then Boxer will use the image as-is.

Where can I find cover art to use?

Adding documentation to a game

The Help menu lists the documentation files inside the gamebox you’re playing. Click a file to open it in the appropriate viewer.

Normally this list shows all text files, PDFs and images inside the gamebox. To customise it:

  1. Browse the gamebox contents in Finder.
  2. Create a new folder inside the gamebox named Documentation.
  3. Fill it with the documentation files you want.

When there’s a Documentation folder inside the gamebox, the Help list will show everything in that folder and nothing else.

Where can I find manuals?